CVE-2016-4480

Name	CVE-2016-4480
Description	The guest_walk_tables function in arch/x86/mm/guest_walk.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly handle the Page Size (PS) page table entry bit at the L4 and L3 page table levels, which might allow local guest OS users to gain privileges via a crafted mapping of memory.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-571-1, DSA-3633-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
xen (PTS)	bullseye	4.14.6-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1	fixed
	bookworm	4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1	fixed
	trixie	4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1	fixed
	sid	4.19.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
xen	source	wheezy	4.1.6.lts1-1	DLA-571-1
xen	source	jessie	4.4.1-9+deb8u6	DSA-3633-1
xen	source	(unstable)	4.8.0~rc3-1

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-176.html